Posts tagged “Pyephem”

2013 Jan 12

iPython Notebook and Astronomy at CodeMash

Another CodeMash is over! Bacon has been eaten, the Kalahari water park has echoed with talks about languages both static and dynamic, and one of the world's most eclectic programming conferences has sent more than a thousand attendees away happy. You're missing @brandon_rhodes #codemash talk. twitter.com/benjaminws/sta…— Benjamin W. Smith (@benjaminws)…

2008 Dec 13

PyEphem now available for Python 3.0!

Eager not to be left behind by the advance of history, I have released PyEphem tonight for Python 3.0! After updating its C-language routines earlier this week, as described in my previous post, and adjusting its Python syntax, I thought that my work was done — until I received a…

2008 Dec 9

Porting a C extension module to Python 3.0

With several packages already advertising Python 3.0 compatibility, it seemed high time to look into releasing my PyEphem astronomy package in an edition compatible with the new language. But I hesitated: how difficult is it really, and how many hours of work will it consume, to port a C-language extension…

2008 Jun 14

PyEphem 3.7.2.4, now on Launchpad!

I have decided to give my PyEphem astronomy library for Python a public source code repository, an open forum for user questions, and a bug tracker where my users can see the progress of their bug reports out in the open rather than having them scattered across our email inboxes.…

2007 Dec 11

New PyEphem release: 3.7.2.2

On Sunday afternoon I released a new version of PyEphem, which is available from the Python Package Index as version 3.7.2.2! I want to thank the users who spurred its development — in particular, John Duchek of the Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri encouraged me both to create the new…

2007 Nov 9

PyEphem available for Windows!

Over the years I have received many requests from frustrated Windows users, asking for a Windows-native version of my PyEphem astronomy library for Python. For most Windows users, an attempt to build the extension ends abruptly with the terrible and famous message: error: Python was built with version 7.1 of…